Snap happy
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A few days off work has, for once, coincided with decent weather so two days of photography was kicked off with my newly-acquired D700 at Elford & Portway on the NE-SW route between Burton and Tamworth. Despite being just down the road I'd never been before. It's a cracking location though, and was pleasantly busy. As well as the usual fare of 170's, Voyagers and HST's I saw two 60's on the Kingsbury tanks, Colas's 56094, two 66's, and a DCR 31 towing another 31 and a 56, all within three hours or so. Tomorrow I'm off on an East Midland Ranger so you might see me in Leicester, Nottingham, Grantham or Peterborough.
Progress on the 60 engine sounds has been laboured, hampered significantly by the remaining flakiness of the Lokprogrammer software. I'm getting there slowly though. I've still got about half a minute of space to play with, which will be put to good use 'gilding the lily'. Amongst other things the chip will feature 'multistart' and different horns in either direction. Following recent progress, the horns will be playable right down to short 'toots'.
Mr Petty informs me that there's a Hornby 67 on its way to me, which will give me a chance to tweak the project to suit the new mechanism, and will no doubt prompt a bit of upgrade work before the orders roll in.
On the modelling front, all of my IC-liveried Mk4's have now got Keen System's underframe skirts fitted. I'm planning to get some reference shots on the ECML tomorrow. These will be forwarded to Mr Harvey to produce some etches to cover the Hornby underframes, which bear little resemblance to reality.
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